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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/43981
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> Should I outline or discovery write my stories?

If you go to YouTube and type in "plotting or pantsing", then you will find a ton of videos about this topic. Some people call it "discovery write vs outline", while other people call it "plotting vs pantsing".

I think most people do both. I certainly do both. In my notebook, I wrote a short story about a little rabbit. Well, it turned this "story" was just an outline. As I visualized the story and wrote the scenes on my cell phone, dialogue and action became important to me. For me, the outline provided just the skeleton, while the actual story had dialogue, action, interaction, description, and characterization. The plotting was done mostly in the notebook; the pantsing was done mostly on my cell phone.

> Plus I want my stories to be shown. I'm tired of seeing other storytellers be talked about while I have nothing to show. I'm not trying to sell out, I just want feedback and my stories to be just noticed by a small or possibly large audience.

Hmmm... have you tried posting your story piece by piece, section by section, on social media?

I am currently writing my story in my cell phone and sharing/publishing the story on WeChat with my family, including extended family. So far, my cousin's daughters like the story very much. I suppose they are my target audience; I am mainly writing to them.

You can follow this path too. Just get on social media. Get your friends on the same social media. Share your story, piece by piece, scene by scene, with your family and friends. Start a little fan base among your family and friends. There you go, you have an audience.

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